'Stop' button for the <video> tag

[AntoineMeyer]

Hi,

What do you think about adding a 'Stop' button that will stop the download of the streaming feed to save bandwidth ?

An example of a case is an embedded player on the Facebook wall, you want to watch a video but don't like the 5 first seconds, you should be able to stop buffering without reloading the page.

What do you think?

[zcorpan]

Sure.

"If the media data fetching process is aborted by the user"
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... a-resource

Browsers could let the user abort media load with a button or context menu item or keyboard shortcut etc.

[AMWJ]

This is good advice for the user agent developer, such as Mozilla, Google, or Microsoft. The WHATWG specifications don't detail which controls are built into the video players.

Although, developers should be able to specify which controls are available to the user, like

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volume="disabled"

or

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controls="mute"

(to only allow muting). All or nothing controls seems rather limited.

[zcorpan]

What's the use case?

[AMWJ]

If you had a video running, like an ad, you might want the user to be able to alter the volume based on their computer's volume settings, but not turn it off. There are many cases where you'd want to limit but not fully get rid of the controls.

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<video>Sorry</video>//Without controls
<video controls='all'>Sorry</video>//Full controls
<video controls='volume'>Sorry</video>//Only volume controls
<video controls='allButStop'>Sorry</video>//All controls except Stop
<video controls='mute'>Sorry</video>//Only muting controls